Illustrated catalogue of an exceedingly important collection of artistic Oriental objects and decorative art, which the owners have been three years in assembling [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the owners, the well-known house of Yamanaka & Co., New York, Japan, China, London, on the afternoons and evening herein stated (1921)
American Art Association, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, Parke, H. H, Yamanaka & Company, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 187
rayish stone of sandy surface, with a con-fuscd patina In subdued neutral tones, the resultant of earlypolychrome painting whose colors have vanished and theeffects of time and weather. The goddess holds in her righthand a lotus bud, in her left a vase. The nude trunk of thefigure, gracefully… … No. 571—Chinese Stone Sculpture (Tang) Third and Last Afternoon A GREAT CARVING IN BLACK MARBLE FROM ONEOF THE GREATEST AGES OF HISTORICALCHINESE ART 574—Important Black Marblb SctftFTtrai ow the TancDynasty, with InscriptionStatue of Kuan-yin, goddess of mercy. Standing figure,on a conventional…
Decorative arts
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